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Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

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The Most Important Job In The Bush Administraiton

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Unquestionably the Inspectors General for the various federal departments. If the people responsible for oversight took their job the least bit seriously every federal department would grind to a halt, just like the DOJ when since public pressure forced them to care about the attorney firing scandal. Ergo:

Commerce Department Inspector General Johnnie E. Frazier has been formally cited for violating the federal whistle-blower protection law and is about to retire.

Today, he’ll be toasted at a going-away party — on government property and government time. The party is from 3 to 5 p.m. at the department’s Herbert C. Hoover Building headquarters.

The Times phrases its headline (“Official Cited for Violation to Be Feted”) as if there is some contradiction here. But of course that is ridiculous. If Johnnie Frazier had done his job and a corrupt Bush appointee lost his job or went to jail, then he would find his stuff in a cadboard box by the curb. In our modern GOP the most important job skill for any oversight official is looking the other way.

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  1. 1.

    ThymeZone

    Again we are shocked — shocked! — to find out that the party that told us government was no good, can only deliver government that is no good.

    They made a campaign promise, and kept it. What’s the surprise?

  2. 2.

    Pb

    They made a campaign promise, and kept it. What’s the surprise?

    I think that is the surprise, seeing as how they were full of crap on practically everything else…

  4. 4.

    Pb

    Remember Fetegate?

    He had a fete fetish? Wait, was that the one about the Lincoln bedroom…

  5. 5.

    Jake

    “If wrongdoing is a cause for celebration, our ongoing investigation suggests the department may well revel in festivity in the near future,” said Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.)

    Nice.

  10. 10.

    ThymeZone

    Justice Thomas explains that schools in which blacks are racially isolated might actually be a good thing for such students, and gets snippy with the Court’s liberals: “Regardless of what Justice Breyer’s goals might be, this Court does not sit to ‘create a society that includes all Americans’

    From a Dkos reference to the new school race decision fro SCOTUS.

    I think that this statement by Justice Thomas must rank as one of the most astounding utterances in the history of this country’s jurisprudence.

    Or am I missing something? I am occasionally moved to ask, at what point do we simply throw process aside, march on Washington, and tell all of these motherfuckers to get out?

  11. 11.

    Punchy

    Bush just lost his “Dirty Mexicans Must Go Home” bill to Senate….wait for it….REPUBLICANS.

    I could be wrong, but isn’t this his first major defeat? SS got buried, but long b’fore it actually went to bill form. Can’t wait to see how this retard takes his first of probably many coming defeats.

  13. 13.

    Zifnab

    Shorter Clarence Thomas: I got mine—fuck all you other Black kids!

    I particularly like how Thomas implies that segregation is potentially beneficial to the minority class. The spirit of George Wallace was resurrected in the body of a Black Republican Supreme Court Justice.

    Is it just me, or is Clarence Thomas’s entire purpose in life to take everything Scalia says and make it sound 100% more ignorant and stupid.

  14. 14.

    les

    Is it just me, or is Clarence Thomas’s entire purpose in life to take everything Scalia says and make it sound 100% more ignorant and stupid.

    It may not be his entire purpose, but he’s damn good at it.

  15. 15.

    jake

    this Court does not sit to ‘create a society that includes all Americans’

    And someone will launch an attack on your favourite civil rights ruling in 3…2…1…

    Comments like that make me wonder if Thomas has ever seen a copy of the Constitution or read a previous SC ruling. I’m still convinced some sheet-wearer thought replacing T. Marshall with this dickhead was an amusing little jest. It may well have inspired the brilliant plan to run Keyes against Obama. “See? They’re both black. People won’t be able to tell the difference. I sure can’t, hyuck, hyuck.”

    I particularly like how Thomas implies that segregation is potentially beneficial to the minority class.

    Ah, America. Where anyone, regardless of personal characteristics, can be a complete and total wanker whenever he or she so desires.*

    Progress! Or something.

    *Some restrictions apply. Ability to engage in wankosity may vary based on income, status and personal connections.

  16. 16.

    grumpy realist

    I had so much fun voting for Obama last election because Keyes was running against him. The only real excitement in the race was whether we could hold Keyes down into the single digits (we didn’t).

    Based on the percentage of the vote for Keyes, I can state with confidence that the percentage of Americans in Illinois who are bat-shit crazy hovers around 12%.

    (Who was it who pointed out that the percentage approving of Bush is the same percentage of Americans who think they’ve been abducted by UFOs?)

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  1. […] It seems the Department of Commerce’ Inspector General Johnnie Frazier is in trouble for doing a couple of the things he is supposed to police up as a government watchdog, including submitting fraudulent travel vouchers, and retaliating against people who blew the whistle on him. Tim’s take? The Times phrases its headline (“Official Cited for Violation to Be Feted”) as if there is some contradiction here. But of course that is ridiculous. If Johnnie Frazier had done his job and a corrupt Bush appointee lost his job or went to jail, then he would find his stuff in a cadboard box by the curb. In our modern GOP the most important job skill for any oversight official is looking the other way. […]